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1979Mark Smith is founder and president of Vector Engineering Inc. in Grass Valley. This year the company was recognized by ENR magazine as one of the top 200 environmental consulting firms in the U.S. and by the Zweig-White newsletter as one of the 100 fastest growing architectural/engineering/construction companies. Smith divides his time between Grass Valley and Lima, Peru—one of the firm’s many international offices. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Charles Rominger died of cancer in October 2006 at age 52. Having graduated with two bachelor’s degrees in agriculture, he worked on the 3,500-acre Rominger Brothers Farms in Yolo County and was a devoted advocate of land preservation and wildlife habitat restoration. He is a past president of the California Association of Wheat Growers and also served on the Yolo County Farm Bureau board and Yolo County Ag Futures Alliance. Mr. Rominger was the recipient of a number of awards for his environmental work and was named Yolo County’s Outstanding Young Farmer of the Year. Survivors include his wife, Cairn; children, Cienna and Aldo; siblings, Rick ’76, Bruce ’80 and Ruth; and parents, Richard ’49 and Evelyne ’51. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • William Fayette Taylor, J.D., died in Berkeley in October 2006 at age 54. During his studies at the University of Oregon, he was a member of a group of students who founded the first public interest research group in Oregon, which was the model for UC Berkeley’s CALPIRG. After obtaining his law degree, Mr. Taylor practiced in the Bay Area for 26 years and was a champion of the rights of the elderly and a pioneer in nursing home abuse litigation. He supported such community groups as the Berkeley Historical Society and Berkeley Methodist United Church, and is remembered for his love of politics, jazz, conversation, the natural world and history. Survivors include his wife, Pamela, and his daughter, Adriana. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Oran Hesterman, M.S. ’81, is launching Fair Food Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing universal access to fresh, local and sustainable food. Hesterman currently serves as director of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food and Society Initiative. A Kellogg National Fellow from 1987 to 1990, he has also served as a professor of agriculture at Michigan State University. His new foundation is scheduled to begin operation in January 2008. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Fred Wheeler continues to farm in the Sacramento Delta while raising three children. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Michael Ghiglieri, Ph.D., recently published Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite (Puma Press) with co-author and veteran park ranger Charles Farabee. The book discusses the 900 fatalities that have occurred in Yosemite’s 156 years of recorded history. As a sequel to Ghiglieri’s 2001 book, Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon (self-published), his newest work offers detailed, thoroughly researched accounts of the park’s tragedies. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • A book by Gary Grossman, Ph.D., a gourmet venison cook book titled A Bone to Pick: Everyone’s Guide to Gourmet Venison Cookery was published by Elliot & Fitzpatrick. He also recently presented a lecture in the ecology and evolution seminar series at UC Davis on his research in southern Appalachian streams. Grossman is currently the Distinguished Research Professor of Animal Ecology in the Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Tom Tomich was named director of the UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) as well as the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP). In this role, he will provide leadership for research, teaching, outreach and extension efforts in agricultural sustainability. Holding joint faculty appointments in the departments of Human and Community Development and Environmental Science and Policy, Tomich is also the first professor to hold the new UC Davis W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems. Before joining ASI, Tomich served as global coordinator of the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Steve Pogue is the chief operating officer of CompWest Insurance Co., an insurance carrier based in San Francisco that focuses on workers’ compensation. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Michael Allen, M.F.A., chair of the Adrian College theatre department in Michigan, was appointed president of the national theatre honors fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Ellen (Heusinkveld) Holmgren, an English-as-a-second-language teacher living in Sacramento, reunites regularly with a group of friends who lived in Tercero’s K Building during the mid-’70s. They are Judy (Chan) Tow ’78, who is a sales representative for Novartis Pharmaceuticals and lives in San Ramon, Bobbie (Olmsted) Hewell ’77, Cred. ’78, a first-grade teacher who lives in Davis, and Marsha Mak ’75, M.S. ’76, Cred. ’76, a school counselor who also lives in San Ramon. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Ray Jones was recently promoted to chief of the Sacramento Fire Department. Jones is a 21-year veteran of the department. He lives in Roseville with his wife, Kelli, and their three children, Jared, Zach and Cara. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Katherine (Naugle) Wood-Copa was certified as a dressage instructor and trainer from training level through fourth level by the U.S. Dressage Federation. She is one of only about 50 people who have been awarded this highest level of certification. She and her husband, Sergio, a photographer, run a horse farm south of Rochester, N.Y. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Edward Weber, M.S. ’82, was the Napa County director and viticulture farm advisor for UC Cooperative Extension until his sudden death in December 2007 due to a heart condition. He was 51. Mr. Weber began his winemaking career with the Riecine Winery in Gaiole, Italy, and then worked with the Joseph Phelps Winery before joining Cooperative Extension. He married his college sweetheart, Anne Jungerman, in 1985. The couple had three sons, Reid, Grady and Owen. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Curtis Lineberger, Tom Schindler and Peter Whipple competed together in the Masters World Championships for water polo. The games were held in Perth, Australia, with 12 international teams entered. Their team took fifth place overall, despite Schindler receiving an injury that required four stitches between the eyes. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Susan Abplanalp-Weeks retired from the Gap and started her own business, Emery Street Inc., in Emeryville, a garment manufacturing company that produces dresses under the Karen Alexander label. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Robert Fracchia, J.D., a Solano County Superior Court judge. A longtime attorney, Fracchia had been a Juvenile Court commissioner. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • David Kaslow, vice president in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines at Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, Pa., was inducted into May to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars for his contributions to the development of vaccines for malaria and other infectious diseases. A former Johns Hopkins fellow, he founded the Malaria Vaccine Development Unit at the National Institutes of Health. He also directed the research and product development that led to clinical trials for vaccines against anthrax, West Nile virus, influenza, HIV and cancer. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • The Rev. R. Jerome Thomas is senior pastor and teacher at the Church of All Faiths in Oakland and a commander in the chaplain corps for the U.S. Naval Reserve. He also works frequently with the Veterans Administration, performing burial services for veterans. After graduating from UC Davis, he joined the Peace Corps and taught agriculture at a high school in Kenya. He later earned a graduate degree in divinity studies from San Francisco Theological Seminary and a ministry doctorate from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Barry Broad, J.D. '82, wrote a new book called Eve of Destruction (Seven Locks Press), which is an international spy thriller set against the backdrop of the "war on terror." Broad is an attorney and a lobbyist representing organized labor. He lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue)

1979Mark Smith is founder and president of Vector Engineering Inc. in Grass Valley. This year the company was recognized by ENR magazine as one of the top 200 environmental consulting firms in the U.S. and by the Zweig-White newsletter as one of the 100 fastest growing architectural/engineering/construction companies. Smith divides his time between Grass Valley and Lima, Peru—one of the firm’s many international offices. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Charles Rominger died of cancer in October 2006 at age 52. Having graduated with two bachelor’s degrees in agriculture, he worked on the 3,500-acre Rominger Brothers Farms in Yolo County and was a devoted advocate of land preservation and wildlife habitat restoration. He is a past president of the California Association of Wheat Growers and also served on the Yolo County Farm Bureau board and Yolo County Ag Futures Alliance. Mr. Rominger was the recipient of a number of awards for his environmental work and was named Yolo County’s Outstanding Young Farmer of the Year. Survivors include his wife, Cairn; children, Cienna and Aldo; siblings, Rick ’76, Bruce ’80 and Ruth; and parents, Richard ’49 and Evelyne ’51. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • William Fayette Taylor, J.D., died in Berkeley in October 2006 at age 54. During his studies at the University of Oregon, he was a member of a group of students who founded the first public interest research group in Oregon, which was the model for UC Berkeley’s CALPIRG. After obtaining his law degree, Mr. Taylor practiced in the Bay Area for 26 years and was a champion of the rights of the elderly and a pioneer in nursing home abuse litigation. He supported such community groups as the Berkeley Historical Society and Berkeley Methodist United Church, and is remembered for his love of politics, jazz, conversation, the natural world and history. Survivors include his wife, Pamela, and his daughter, Adriana. (appeared in the Winter 2007 issue) • Oran Hesterman, M.S. ’81, is launching Fair Food Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing universal access to fresh, local and sustainable food. Hesterman currently serves as director of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Food and Society Initiative. A Kellogg National Fellow from 1987 to 1990, he has also served as a professor of agriculture at Michigan State University. His new foundation is scheduled to begin operation in January 2008. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Fred Wheeler continues to farm in the Sacramento Delta while raising three children. (appeared in the Spring 2007 issue) • Michael Ghiglieri, Ph.D., recently published Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite (Puma Press) with co-author and veteran park ranger Charles Farabee. The book discusses the 900 fatalities that have occurred in Yosemite’s 156 years of recorded history. As a sequel to Ghiglieri’s 2001 book, Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon (self-published), his newest work offers detailed, thoroughly researched accounts of the park’s tragedies. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • A book by Gary Grossman, Ph.D., a gourmet venison cook book titled A Bone to Pick: Everyone’s Guide to Gourmet Venison Cookery was published by Elliot & Fitzpatrick. He also recently presented a lecture in the ecology and evolution seminar series at UC Davis on his research in southern Appalachian streams. Grossman is currently the Distinguished Research Professor of Animal Ecology in the Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Tom Tomich was named director of the UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) as well as the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP). In this role, he will provide leadership for research, teaching, outreach and extension efforts in agricultural sustainability. Holding joint faculty appointments in the departments of Human and Community Development and Environmental Science and Policy, Tomich is also the first professor to hold the new UC Davis W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems. Before joining ASI, Tomich served as global coordinator of the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya. (appeared in the Summer 2007 issue) • Steve Pogue is the chief operating officer of CompWest Insurance Co., an insurance carrier based in San Francisco that focuses on workers’ compensation. (appeared in the Fall 2007 issue) • Michael Allen, M.F.A., chair of the Adrian College theatre department in Michigan, was appointed president of the national theatre honors fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Ellen (Heusinkveld) Holmgren, an English-as-a-second-language teacher living in Sacramento, reunites regularly with a group of friends who lived in Tercero’s K Building during the mid-’70s. They are Judy (Chan) Tow ’78, who is a sales representative for Novartis Pharmaceuticals and lives in San Ramon, Bobbie (Olmsted) Hewell ’77, Cred. ’78, a first-grade teacher who lives in Davis, and Marsha Mak ’75, M.S. ’76, Cred. ’76, a school counselor who also lives in San Ramon. (appeared in the Winter 2008 issue) • Ray Jones was recently promoted to chief of the Sacramento Fire Department. Jones is a 21-year veteran of the department. He lives in Roseville with his wife, Kelli, and their three children, Jared, Zach and Cara. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Katherine (Naugle) Wood-Copa was certified as a dressage instructor and trainer from training level through fourth level by the U.S. Dressage Federation. She is one of only about 50 people who have been awarded this highest level of certification. She and her husband, Sergio, a photographer, run a horse farm south of Rochester, N.Y. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Edward Weber, M.S. ’82, was the Napa County director and viticulture farm advisor for UC Cooperative Extension until his sudden death in December 2007 due to a heart condition. He was 51. Mr. Weber began his winemaking career with the Riecine Winery in Gaiole, Italy, and then worked with the Joseph Phelps Winery before joining Cooperative Extension. He married his college sweetheart, Anne Jungerman, in 1985. The couple had three sons, Reid, Grady and Owen. (appeared in the Spring 2008 issue) • Curtis Lineberger, Tom Schindler and Peter Whipple competed together in the Masters World Championships for water polo. The games were held in Perth, Australia, with 12 international teams entered. Their team took fifth place overall, despite Schindler receiving an injury that required four stitches between the eyes. (appeared in the Summer 2008 issue) • Susan Abplanalp-Weeks retired from the Gap and started her own business, Emery Street Inc., in Emeryville, a garment manufacturing company that produces dresses under the Karen Alexander label. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Robert Fracchia, J.D., a Solano County Superior Court judge. A longtime attorney, Fracchia had been a Juvenile Court commissioner. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • David Kaslow, vice president in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines at Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, Pa., was inducted into May to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars for his contributions to the development of vaccines for malaria and other infectious diseases. A former Johns Hopkins fellow, he founded the Malaria Vaccine Development Unit at the National Institutes of Health. He also directed the research and product development that led to clinical trials for vaccines against anthrax, West Nile virus, influenza, HIV and cancer. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • The Rev. R. Jerome Thomas is senior pastor and teacher at the Church of All Faiths in Oakland and a commander in the chaplain corps for the U.S. Naval Reserve. He also works frequently with the Veterans Administration, performing burial services for veterans. After graduating from UC Davis, he joined the Peace Corps and taught agriculture at a high school in Kenya. He later earned a graduate degree in divinity studies from San Francisco Theological Seminary and a ministry doctorate from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. (appeared in the Fall 2008 issue) • Barry Broad, J.D. '82, wrote a new book called Eve of Destruction (Seven Locks Press), which is an international spy thriller set against the backdrop of the "war on terror." Broad is an attorney and a lobbyist representing organized labor. He lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children. (appeared in the Winter 2009 issue)

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